Art Monte Carlo is delighted to welcome the Prix Pictet, the world’s top photography prize for sustainability, from 14 July. Having previously exhibited around the world including Tel Aviv, Verona, and Lausanne, the eighth cycle of the award Hope, comes to Monaco. Prix Pictet will run through Art Monte-Carlo in …
The winner of Prix Pictet Fire will be announced on the evening of Wednesday 15 December 2021. The ceremony can be watched live on the Prix Pictet Youtube Livestream. The shortlisted photographers are: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (Lebanon) Rinko Kawauchi (Japan) Sally Mann (USA) Christian Marclay (USA/ Switzerland) Fabrice Monteiro (Belgium/Benin) Lisa Oppenheim (USA) Mak Remissa (Cambodia) Carla Rippey (Mexico) …
The Comune di Verona is delighted to welcome the Prix Pictet to the Palazzo della Gran Guardia from 18 February to 25 May 2021. Having previously exhibited in Milan, Rome and Turin, the Prix Pictet comes to Verona for the first time in a large-scale show of Hope, the eighth …
Prix Pictet announces ‘Fire’ as the theme for the ninth cycle of the award. As Chair Stephen Barber explains, the choice of theme is timely. “Fire has hardly been out of the news since the inferno that consumed Notre Dame in Paris in early 2019. We have seen record rainforest …
The exhibition Hope, featuring the work of 12 shortlisted Prix Pictet artists, is now on view at the newly reopened EPFL ArtLab in Lausanne, Switzerland. With a focus on the intersection of art, science, and technology, ArtLab has deviated from its usual programming to welcome Hope, the second Prix Pictet …
Explore the exhibition in full virtual reality For the past 12 years, the Prix Pictet has participated in the opening ceremony of Les Rencontres d’Arles, scheduled to take place in the first week of July and regretfully, this year, postponed. To mark this event, and as we wait in anticipation …
In June the Prix Pictet launched a special commission series in collaboration with The Guardian in which four shortlisted photographers present their personal response to the coronavirus crisis. Nadav Kander, Rena Effendi, Rinko Kawauchi and Alexia Webster, all photographers who have been shortlisted for the Prix Pictet over the last …
In a ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on the evening of Wednesday 13th November, the Director of the Museum, Tristram Hunt, presented Ivorian photographer Joana Choumali with the Eighth Prix Pictet for her series Ça va aller (it will be ok) on this cycle’s theme of …
The Prix Pictet today launches its first podcast series entitled, Prix Pictet: A lens on sustainability. This series consists of five initial episodes where leading global creators, thinkers and photographers discuss photography and sustainability within the themes explored in Prix Pictet. Each episode approaches its selected theme with a photographer, …
On 4 July 2019, the shortlist of twelve photographers selected for the eighth cycle of the Prix Pictet was announced during a screening at the Roman Theatre in Arles, to mark the opening of Les Rencontres d’Arles International Photography Festival. The shortlist was announced by Stephen Barber, Chair of the …
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Prix Pictet, Pictet is delighted to announce a special one-off award of £10,000 to be given to a photographer under the age of 30 for the best proposal to complete a body of work based on an issue of sustainability. The award will …
It was with immense sadness that we learned, on Saturday 18th August, of the death of Kofi Annan. He served as honorary president of the Prix Pictet from its inception in 2008. Commenting on the influence he had on the prize since its early days, the Chairman of the Prix …
At a special evening at the Rencontres d’Arles on 5 July the theme for the eighth cycle of the Prix Pictet was announced. The new theme is Hope. The announcement was made by the Chairman of the Prix Pictet, Stephen Barber. The cycle of Prix Pictet Hope will begin now …
Launched by the Pictet Group in 2008 the Prix Pictet has steadily grown in prominence to the point where it is now regarded as one of the world’s leading photography prizes. The first seven cycles of the award have uncovered outstanding photography applied to some of the most pressing environmental …
Lieko Shiga has been announced as winner of the second Prix Pictet Japan Award. The winner was chosen for her series Blind Date. The prize was awarded on 22 November 2017 at a special ceremony at Hillside Forum, Daikanyama, Tokyo. This year marks the second edition of the Prix Pictet …
A special exhibition is being shown at Moor House, the London headquarters of the Pictet Group. On display is a wide selection of spreads from the Prix Pictet book Space. Space, which is currently available to purchase from teNeues, features work from the twelve shortlisted artists as well as a carefully chosen selection of images …
Last month saw the Finalists’ Exhibition of Prix Pictet Space – hosted at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The winner of the seventh award was Richard Mosse, who was awarded the seventh Prix Pictet for his series entitled ‘Heat Maps’. Since its opening the exhibition has been visited by 24,000 …
Last night at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London it was announced that the Irish photographer Richard Mosse had become the winner of the seventh Prix Pictet. His series Heat Maps documents refugee camps and staging sites using an extreme telephoto military grade thermal camera that can detect body heat …
At a screening event last night at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Prix Pictet Chairman, Stephen Barber, announced the shortlist for the seventh Prix Pictet. The shortlist features work by 12 artists from countries on 3 of the World’s continents. In making their selection, the independent jury, chaired …
As part of a special presentation at this years Les Rencontres d’Arles we hosted a discussion between the laureate for Prix Pictet Disorder and Phillip Prodger. The conversation was filmed in full and can be viewed below. Directed by Olivier Koechlin, with executive production by Coïncidence. Valérie Belin in discussion with Phillip Prodger …
